How to indicate paths

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

Andrew Farris さんは書きました:
>> The said HDD is connected to the Linux machine, mounted (all files are
>> accessible) and works fine.
>> But when I enter:
>> /speicher/Dictionaries (with or without slash at the end, upper/lower
>> case letters etc.)
>> I always get the error message:
>> "Failed to open directory /SPEICHER/Dictionaries"
>>
>> What **exactly** am I supposed to enter here to make the computer look
>> in the existing and working directory /speicher/Dictionaries?
>>     
>
> your path should look more like this: "/media/speicher/Dictionaries"
>
> Typically when you mount partitions (and they're not listed
> in /etc/fstab) then they get mounted in a directory under the '/media'
> folder. so you would need to reference along that path.
>
> Now if you created a directory under the root '/' partition, called
> 'speicher' and mounted your partition there, then your above-described
> attempts would meet with success.
>
> Also, since most everything in gnome is drag-n-drop capable, you could
> just open up your mounted drive, find the folder with the dictionaries
> in it, and just drag/drop it into the path bar in the program.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>   

Thank you.
Yes, you are right, I found the volume "Speicher" under /media/.
And the neat trick with dragging the relevant icon into the box, where I 
am supposed to enter the path also worked fine
(I got there: file:///media/SPEICHER/Dictionaries)
BUT ....
the path still does not work. I get the same error message: "Failed to 
open directory /SPEICHER/Dictionaries"

What else could be needed here??

When I enter just "/" and press enter, the computer does **something** 
(you can hear it work and see the access lamp flash), but there are no 
messages, changes
or any other clues as to what it is doing. After a while the activity stops.
But as far as I can tell, nothing has changed or happened.
Does that mean, the computer has searched the files but did not find 
anything?